Several studies document the fact that low-educated workers participate less often infurther training than high-educated workers. The economic literature suggests that there is no significant difference in employer willingness to train low-educated workers, which leaves the question of why the...

This paper greatly enriches the discussion on the determinants of lifelong learning of scientists and engineers (S&Es). In our analysis, which is based on a survey among S&Es in the Netherlands, we take account of both formal training and different modes of informal learning. We find that S&Es...

This paper assesses the impact of a dramatic reform of the Dutch pension system on mental health, savings behavior and retirement expectations of workers nearing retirement age. The reform means that public sector workers born on January 1, 1950 or later face a substantial reduction in their...

This paper uses longitudinal test data to analyze the relation between retirement and cognitivedevelopment. Controlling for individual fixed effects, we find that retirees face greater declinesin information processing speed than those who remain employed. However, remarkably, theircognitive...

This article studies the use and impact of a firm-sponsored training (“Employability-miles”)voucher scheme that aims to stimulate employees to develop a more active attitude toward their ownemployability. Using data from two surveys of the firm’s workforce, we find that voucher use...

In this paper, we estimate tenure-performance proles using unique panel data that containdetailed information on individual workers'' performance. We find that a 10 per cent increase intenure leads to an increase in performance of 5.5 per cent of a standard deviation. Thistranslates to an...

This paper analyses the eects of work-related training on worker productivity. To identify thecausal effects from training, we combine a field experiment that randomly assigns workers to treatmentand control groups with panel data on individual worker performance before and after training.We...

We document the importance of negatively reciprocal inclinations in labor relationships by showingthat a retrenchment of pension rights, which is perceived as unfair, causes a larger reduction injob motivation the stronger workers’ negatively reciprocal inclinations are. We exploit...

As suggested by human capital theory, workers with flexible contracts participate less often intraining than those with permanent contracts. We find that this is merely due to the fact thatflexworkers receive less employer–funded training, a gap they can only partly compensate for bytheir own...

This paper uses a natural experiment approach to identify the effects of an exogenous change in future pension benefits on workers'' training participation. We use unique matched survey and administrative data for male employees in the Dutch public sector who were born in 1949 or 1950. Only the...